mia_stop That is a very long list of apps starting with Windows, and most of them don't need to at all. I'd suggest disabling everything on the list except for HP Display Control, OneDrive (only if you use it), and SecurityHealthSysTray. That doesn't mean the other apps will stop working, only that they won't be running in the background when you have no use for them.
If that doesn't help, the next step is playing in a clean boot:
The one service to leave enabled is the EABackgroundService, which the EA App needs in order to run. Disable the rest as described.
When you reboot your computer, go through the Task Manager's background processes list shutting down any service that doesn't absolutely need to be running, for example anything from MSI Afterburner to RGB software might still be enabled. If you accidentally kill a critical process and it doesn't restart on its own, just reboot your computer again.
Don't open anything other than Sims 4 and the EA App while testing, not even a browser window.
About an hour of disabling and rebooting later, I've tried all of this and didn't see any difference. It's possible I'm missing a step or something- either way, this has all been giving me a headache so I already deleted the "new" Sims 4 folder and loaded my original to be sure I didn't at least make things even worse. I'm fine with going back to my limited functionality I had with some packs disabled for now 😅I'll return to this issue soon when I'm less busy, maybe in the meantime someone with the same issue and more willpower will find a solution lol. At least my graphics driver is updated! Thanks for the help.
